This data from the New York Times makes clear who has benefited most and least from the US recession: So companies have won and paid less tax
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Matt Sissons has reviewed my book The Courageous State on the Why Politics? blog. I won’t reproduce the whole review, and it’s fair to note
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Up to 20,000 HMRC staff are expected to strike at some time tomorrow. The reason why they’re doing so is simple: HMRC, in the face of damning
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Will Hutton made an interesting point in the Observer yesterday: Fewer than 150,000 jobs are directly involved in the making of [1.4 million cars and
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IPPR produced a report on globalisation last week. With a forward by Lord Mandelson the report was written by Will Straw and Alex Glennie. I
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Like the Labour Party I have major problems with the government’s pursuit of a ‘happiness’ agenda. I have long felt ‘happiness’ a vacuous goal. That’s
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I wrote the following article for the Indian tax website Taxsutra, but I’ll share it here. It does, of course, consider India’s recent loss in its case against Vodafone:
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A great video by David Cay Johnston, a Purlitzer Prize winning journalist with Reuters in the USA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T9KzJCPKXow There’s more on this by David here. As he
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The Telegraph reported yesterday that: People who receive cash-in-hand payments for goods and services are harming the economy, according to HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC)
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